milBANKS BAILs OUT on THE ONE

I'm not nearly the drooling fan of Dana Milbanks that CW is, but while watching the President's press conference yesterday, I was wondering how the already insecure journalism community would respond to the obvious plant of HuffPost's Nico Pitney (great name--bet he lost a lot of lunch money as a kid) to lob a mildly under-fire Obama a softball on Iran. I've been on the road all day so hadn't seen much on it, and was pretty certain that if anyone was covering it, it would only be Fox and their ilk, especially once the rest of the MSM tried to get better close up zooms of Governor-for-not-much-longer Sanford's self-inflicted gun shot wounds to both of his hiking feet. But, much to my surprise, it was CW's Dana M who came through!
Now, if the General Electric Networks can follow suit (admittedly at the risk of putting GE corporate objectives of federal funding for their compact flourescent light bulbs, smart grid technology, computerized medical records, etc....) and allow their "news bureaus" to actually do what they always claim they do after wrapping themselves tightly with the First Amendment: "to provide the public service of shining a light into the deepest, darkest recesses of government" then we might possibly have the beginnings of a step away from (or at least a less steep step toward) the Euro-social-democratic state that the Reid-Pelosi-Obama trivumerate is attempting to create.
And who would have thought that the end of the honeymoon would come from this Administration forgetting professional journalists' primal concern: their own jobs?